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Plant this wildflower in masses and enjoy the fragrant blooms atop curvy gray-green foliage. Delicious chocolate scented yellow daisies bloom under the most austere conditions, making Berlandiera welcome in xeric gardens, dry slopes, and wildflower meadows. Shear after the first flush of bloom for a more compact rebloom. Native to Texas, it was first collected by botanist Jean-Louis Berlandier in the early 1800s.

An arresting golden-petaled coneflower with good fragrance, Ozark coneflower is native to Arkansas and Missouri, but rarely found today in ite native area. This deer resistant coneflower attracts butterflies and bees to its bristly dome-like centers all summer. Deadheading will promote further blooming; in later summer let flowers remain to ripen seed for birds.

A flounced skirt of chestnut petals edged in gold gather round the flower disk—a beaded column of sage green, studded with gold. Grey-green cut foliage catches the light, becoming a shimmering presence under the sun. Easy to grow in regular to dry soils, it naturalizes to create large drifts.

This rare perennial from Greece has rosettes of filigree foliage and tall spikes of lemon yellow flowers seemingly floating free of the stems. Long blooming in the summer months, it is easy to grow, just provide fertile well-drained soils and provide protection from windy areas.

Sundrops is a beautiful name for this glowing chalice of a flower. Blooming for two months starting in early summer and continuing as new flowers open every day. Fall brings flashy burgundy foliage. Once a pass-along plant among gardeners who know a good thing when they see it, it is right at home as an easy-care bright edging or groundcover.

Native to dry prairies, from Minnesota, South Dakota, south to Georgia, and Mississippi. Beautiful large light yellow petals droop from tall purple-brown cone centers, blooming all summer. Beautiful combined with coneflowers and sea holly in the mid to back border.